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Jeremiah's
Scroll Read in the Temple |
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| Jeremiah 36:1 |
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In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, |
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| Jeremiah 36:2 |
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"Take a scroll and write on it all the words
which I have spoken to you concerning Israel and concerning Judah, and concerning
all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even
to this day. |
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| Jeremiah 36:3 |
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"Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the
calamity which I plan to bring on them, in order that every man will turn from
his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin." |
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| Jeremiah 36:4 |
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Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah,
and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the
LORD which He had spoken to him. |
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| Jeremiah 36:5 |
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Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am restricted;
I cannot go into the house of the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 36:6 |
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"So you go and read from the scroll which you
have written at my dictation the words of the LORD to the people in the LORD'S
house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who
come from their cities. |
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| Jeremiah 36:7 |
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"Perhaps their supplication will come before
the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and
the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people." |
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| Jeremiah 36:8 |
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Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all
that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the
LORD in the LORD'S house. |
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| Jeremiah 36:9 |
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Now in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all
the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before
the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 36:10 |
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Then Baruch read from the book the words of
Jeremiah in the house of the LORD in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan
the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD'S house,
to all the people. |
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| Jeremiah 36:11 |
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Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son
of Shaphan, had heard all the words of the LORD from the book, |
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| Jeremiah 36:12 |
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he went down to the king's house, into the scribe's
chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there--Elishama the scribe,
and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah
the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. |
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| Jeremiah 36:13 |
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Micaiah declared to them all the words that
he had heard when Baruch read from the book to the people. |
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| Jeremiah 36:14 |
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Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in
your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come." So Baruch
the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them. |
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| Jeremiah 36:15 |
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They said to him, "Sit down, please, and read
it to us." So Baruch read it to them. |
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| Jeremiah 36:16 |
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When they had heard all the words, they turned
in fear one to another and said to Baruch, "We will surely report all these words
to the king." |
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| Jeremiah 36:17 |
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And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us, please,
how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?" |
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| Jeremiah 36:18 |
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Then Baruch said to them, "He dictated all these
words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book." |
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| Jeremiah 36:19 |
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Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide
yourself, you and Jeremiah, and do not let anyone know where you are." |
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The Scroll Is Burned |
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| Jeremiah 36:20 |
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So they went to the king in the court, but they
had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported
all the words to the king. |
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| Jeremiah 36:21 |
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Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll,
and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it to
the king as well as to all the officials who stood beside the king. |
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| Jeremiah 36:22 |
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Now the king was sitting in the winter house
in the ninth month, with a fire burning in the brazier before him. |
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| Jeremiah 36:23 |
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When Jehudi had read three or four columns,
the king cut it with a scribe's knife and threw it into the fire that was in the
brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier. |
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| Jeremiah 36:24 |
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Yet the king and all his servants who heard
all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments. |
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| Jeremiah 36:25 |
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Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah
pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. |
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| Jeremiah 36:26 |
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And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's
son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch
the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them. |
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The Scroll Is Replaced |
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| Jeremiah 36:27 |
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Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah after
the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation
of Jeremiah, saying, |
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| Jeremiah 36:28 |
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"Take again another scroll and write on it all
the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah
burned. |
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| Jeremiah 36:29 |
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"And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you
shall say, 'Thus says the LORD, "You have burned this scroll, saying, 'Why have
you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this
land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?'" |
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| Jeremiah 36:30 |
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'Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim
king of Judah, "He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead
body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. |
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| Jeremiah 36:31 |
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"I will also punish him and his descendants
and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them--but
they did not listen."'" |
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| Jeremiah 36:32 |
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Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it
to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of
Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in
the fire; and many similar words were added to them. |
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